Monday, June 19, 2017

Sydney's newest food truck jam? It's now happening every Saturday night at Paddy's Market Flemington. It's a clever use of the giant multi-storey car park that sits unused after dusk. The covered car park makes for one enormous food truck arena that offers both shelter from rain and plenty of parking. Win win!

Chef's Kitchen food truck

The Paddy's Night Food Markets are still in soft launch mode, running through a series of different food trucks each week. The space is huuuge with about a dozen food trucks parked in a square around a casual dining area of pallet tables, chairs and stools.

Chef's Kitchen food truck menu

Crowds weren't too bad when we visited on the weekend but we expect queues to become a lot more hectic by the official launch on July 1.

We start with a twelve pack of crispy chicken wings from Maverick Wings. They're normally $21.95 but pay an extra three dollars and you can get three sauces instead of one. Sauce options vary from the mild glazed honeysoy to the totally wild sounding salted caramel popcorn and Nutella chocolate (why?).

We can confirm that the Frank's Red Hot buffalo wings will set your tongue a-tingling, ideally matched with the creaminess of the garlic parmesan. We also ordered the fresh lime and chilli but presume this was garnished incorrectly as it was missing the usual coriander and red chilli.

One of the big winners of the night was the meaty menage from Chef's Kitchen. It's a juicy burger with crispy bacon and a pile of 14-hour smoked brisket. It all worked brilliantly together, especially the smokiness of that juicy brisket.

At the back of the photo above you can see the roasted chicken gravy with potato mash from Dirty Bird. We ended up dipping our Cajun potatoes in that for carb-on-carb action.

Dinner

Bulb drinks $7

Free arcade games

Anyone who remembers teenage years spent at Timezone will weep at the free arcade games set up in the middle.

Arcade games for young and old

Relive your youth with Pacman and Space Invaders.

Sega Rally

They even have Sega Rally!

Me Meli food truck serving loukoumades Greek honey donuts

We line up for dessert at Me Meli, a food truck that translates in Greek to "with honey".

Loukoumades Greek honey donut cone with Nutella $10

Here they make loukoumades, a traditional Greek donut.

Frying the loukoumades Greek honey donuts

On the side of the truck you can watch the batter dropped into hot oil and fried, a process that takes several minutes and lots of stirring so they don't stick.

Golden loukoumades fresh out of the fryer

Loukoumades Greek donuts rolled in cinnamon sugar

Loukoumades Greek donuts are traditionally served with honey and walnuts but here you can also get them rolled in cinnamon sugar...

We go classic. We've had loukoumades at festivals before but these are particularly impressive, with a super crunchy shell to each one. There's a generous amount of honey too, as well as a liberal shower of crushed walnuts.

The Paddy's Night Food Markets officially launch on July 1, 2017 but you can still sneak in a pre-launch visit next Saturday June 24 when the Knafeh food truck joins the line-up for the night.

Grab Your Fork visited the Paddy's Night Food Markets anonymously and unannounced and paid for all food featured. If a blog post is an invite, it will always be clearly marked as such.